Re: [j-devel] ilisp

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 at 23:41:12 +0100, Andr=E1s_Simon wrote:
> Yes, except that I'd prefer not keep that file around, but use it once
> to insert the arglists (taken from the file) in the constructor
> calls. It's admittedly more work, but (1) if we already have that
> arglist field, why not use it? (2) I think it's better to keep things
> that belong together in one place (3) I hate special cases :-)
I have no objection to doing it that way, although it seems a -lot-
harder (not to mention error-prone) than just generating cl-arglists.lisp=
from some external source.
> There's one tiny problem with automating all this however:
> sys::arglist is more informative than the spec, in that it shows
> defaults, too, which is a very cool feature. But it's a minor issue
> that can be dealt with later (if at all; acl, for example, doesn't
> care).
Well, once all the arglist strings (without defaults) have been placed
in their final destinations (Java source or cl-arglists.lisp) by an
automated process, we can always edit them by hand if we want to.
-Peter